ArchiveJuly 2014

[The following post is contributed by Debanshu Mukherjee, a Senior Resident Fellow at Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy, New Delhi] Last month, SEBI had issued a Consultation Paper on regulating Crowdfunding in India. Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy, a New Delhi based independent and not-for-profit think-tank prepared a detailed response to the Paper and submitted it to SEBI earlier this month...

Professor John Coates has a new paper titled Mergers, Acquisitions and Restructuring: Types, Regulation, and Patterns of Practice that is available on SSRN. The abstract is as follows: An important component of corporate governance is the regulation of significant transactions – mergers, acquisitions, and restructuring. This paper (a chapter in Oxford Handbook on Corporate Law and Governance...

Infrastructure Investment Trusts Last last year, we had discussed the SEBI Consultation Paper on Infrastructure Investment Trusts. While the move towards the establishment of infrastucture investment trusts (InvITs) was welcome, certain issues such as tax treatment remained to be ironed out. Now that the tax treatment has been addressed in the Budget 2014, SEBI has published a draft of the SEBI...

Standard treatises on mergers & acquisitions (M&A) contain the usual benefits or rationale for why a company would take over another. These include growth, size, synergies, and so on. One of the significant benefits of takeovers could also be tax synergies such as setting off the losses of one company against the losses of another. Similar benefits may be available with respect to...

Professors Afra Afsharipour and Shruti Rana have a new paper titled The Emergence of New Corporate Social Responsibility Regimes in China and India, which is now available on SSRN. The abstract is as follows: In an era of financial crises, widening income disparities, and environmental and other calamities linked to corporations, calls for greater corporate social responsibility (“CSR”) are...

Prof. N. Balasubramanian has a new research paper titled Strengthening Corporate Governance in India: A Review of Legislative and Regulatory Initiatives in 2013-2014 that is available on SSRN. The abstract is as follows: The passing of the long awaited Companies Act in 2013 is probably the single most important development in India’s history of corporate legislation, next only to the monumental...

The NSE Centre for Excellence in Corporate Governance (CECG) has issued its most recent quarterly briefing titled Corporate Social Responsibility Under Companies Act, 2013 authored by Prof. Subrata Sarkar. The executive summary is as follows: The newly enacted Companies Act, 2013 and the Rules notified thereunder makes it statutory for all companies above a certain size to spend 2 percent of...

[The following post is contributed by Vinod Kothari and Shampita Das of Vinod Kothari & Co. They can be contacted at [email protected] and [email protected] respectively] The Ministry of Corporate Affairs (MCA) drives what corporate India will do, or will not do, or will do with rudders and rigours, under the new Companies Act 2013. It was the 30th of the Circulars issued under...

Facts and Sanctions Yesterday, more than five years after the Satyam ex-chairman’s much talked about revelations, SEBI passed an order in the case against five individuals, being the ex-chairman, ex-managing director, ex-Chief Financial Officer, ex-Vice President Finance and ex-Head (Internal Audit). In the 65-page order, SEBI considers the various acts of these individuals in detail that include...

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has recently brought about two sets of related reforms that introduce much greater flexibility to foreign investors in investing in Indian companies that gets rid of some of the rigidity that hitherto existed. In terms of investment instruments, the RBI has permitted investment in partly paid shares and warrants. Additionally, it has also relaxed the pricing...

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